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4. Recommended approaches for projects to be funded
65. The recommendations set out below are intended to highlight features which are important for
partners in international development cooperation in the design and evaluation of, and for decisions
on, projects for the protection of the marine environment for which external financing is to be
sought. With appropriate modifications, they will also apply where a national or regional
programme contains a series of related projects.
66. Projects need to be prepared in the context of the overall national or regional strategies,
policies and programmes related to the protection of the marine environment, on the basis of its
sustainable use and development. Accordingly:
(a) Projects should be derived from the priorities established nationally for the prevention,
control and reduction of marine and coastal degradation within the framework of integrated
management of coastal zones and, where appropriate, their associated watersheds, and consistent
with the national sustainable development strategy;
(b) Chapters II, III and V of this Programme should provide the policy framework for the
identification of priorities;
(c) Projects should be consistent with the principles and duty set out in chapter I above.
67. The goals for projects responding to the impact of land-based activities upon the marine
environment include:
(a) Protection of the health and public amenities of coastal populations, in particular those
suffering from poverty and food insecurity, including addressing sewage and industrial effluents;
(b) Conservation of marine living resources, including maintenance or increase of future
options for their sustainable use;
(c) Conservation and sustainable use, including restoration, of coastal and marine biological
diversity;
(d) Protection, including restoration, of habitats of marine living resources, including critical
spawning and feeding areas, as well as areas used or suitable for mariculture;
(e) Alleviation of poverty as a means of reducing pressure on coastal and marine
environments;
(f) Addressing, where appropriate, management of associated watersheds.
68. Other features which will make projects more likely to be effective or which will enhance
their value generally include:
(a) The involvement of user and local communities that are interested, particularly the
economic and social sectors affected;